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It does indeed, I was suprised how well it worked. If set up time was a concern then a tent would have been far easier and quicker, but I do enojoy the tarp when is raining. Thank you for watching, glad you liked it. Rowan.

Carefully :) It was fun, thanks for watching.

Thank you, it really was.

Oh wow, I bet that was incredible regardless. Annoying you missed them here however.

Thank you, as you say it's taken a while to find what works. I still make continuous tweaks every now and again of course. Thanks for watching.

I don't know that tent. Sad to hear it wasn't the best in the rain. I too really like the Telemark, works really well for me. Thanks for watching.

It really is, thank you.

Thanks for watching. Hands down the tastiest packet meals.

Thank you, it is nice to hear you liked it. As for planning trips etc I am fortunate enough by now to know Dartmoor very well, so all route/locations are in my head. That being said if it is somewhere new or I have forgotten, then I go over different maps to get a rough location and then go on Google maps and look via the satellite view and the pictures other people have taken nearby. Then I plan the route either to the nearest possible place to park or a route I fancy, I tend to work backwards, so from campsite to trail then parking, if that doesn't work then I try a different route. If you live nearby to where you plan to camp, then perhaps go on a walk round the area you intend to go, get some inspiration and a feel for the place. I did that when I recently went to Scotland, walked about 16 miles on a day walk, but I did not like the feel for it, so the following day camped somewhere over an hours drive away from my day walk. That or look for websites or Google maps for trips/camps, street view on Google maps is particuarly useful. Hope this helped a bit. Rowan.

@@RowanWildCamps That's really helpful, thank you! :)

Thank you. You're not the first to say so, I may implement that in the future. I do understand it adds a level of clarity to explaining things, but for now I will keep it as it is. Thanks for the feedback however. Rowan.

It is an Anker Powercore with 20100 mAh capacity. It is able to charge all my electronics for several days. I don't think they make this particular one anymore as I got it more than 5 years ago. But Anker still make good powerbanks.

Thank you. It is the Telemark 1 LW.

@@RowanWildCamps thank you for your response! Lovely tent, can’t wait to get mine

Thank you. It is nice to hear you liked that approach for this video. Cheers for the tip, I will try that the next time I use one. Thankfully I have never had any issues in them rehydrating nor stability, especially when placed in the cosy I have. But like I said I will try it next time as that sounds easier to stand up. Thank you.

Glad you liked it, thanks for watching.

It was a really enjoyable trip. Thanks.

I really like the Vern 1 too, but it does not fufil the role I had in mind for it. Sadly I don't think 10mm poles will make any difference, Nortent sent me a complete extra set of poles and when set up the flexibilty of the tent feels pretty much the same as 1 set. Obviously I am yet to test that theory, I am only speculating. As for free standing or not, if you plan to go in wind then you will need to peg out regardless, and in my experience the Nallo is significantly stronger than the Vern and has more room along with better materials. Plus I would say the Nallo is easier to pitch, but I guess it is all about personal prefence and what kind of camping you have in mind. Perhaps look into the Terra Nova Southern Cross 2, if you wnat something free standing but still pretty strong and not over £1000. Hope this helps. Rowan.

Well, I had it double poled and it seemed to take the weather very well. I am sure the stronger fabrics would help in the long run. It would be camparing this to the Nammatj 2, personally I don't see the Nallo doing any worse than the Nammatj in these conditions, assumming you double poled the Nallo or both had 10mm poles.

Thank you. I did consider it, however I did not think I could add much.

Boring……..clicked off aprox 6 min in . Later

I preferred it why do you need chat the vid speaks for itself..Beautiful 👍

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it. No neither, it was a challenge to say the least, but I am used to that weather by now. Rowan.

Because I like the challenge and I like snow.

Good evening, yes, I took inspiration from that plus Hilleberg mention it as an option. As for the performance, in these kinds of conditions I feel it made a difference and really helped support that main pole. I have been using it like this for quite a while now in various conditions, so I would say if you will regularly encounter 40mph+ winds then I would recommend it. Hope this helps. Rowan.

Thank you, I hope to be taking the dog out again soon once the weather starts to improve.

Me too, is the reason I sent my Soulo BL back. It is by far the strongest tent out there, but I would get soaked inside, was a really annoying problem that I kept trying to solve, with sealant and tenacious Tape. The Nallo isn't so bad if the wind speed is low enough you can go tail into the wind or the water just gets the vestibule wet. Until you get into really high speeds. Rowan.

Thank you for watching. I will certainly try too.

Thank you, I will try too.

It is quite, hence why I prefer the North Moor, as it is more intresting. Yes, can't say I meant that previous one to have the outcome it did. But there we go. Thank you, it was good fun.

Thank you very much. It is nice to hear, I will try to get more out soon.

It is a bit quiet, you're right :) Certainly will, I'm sure I'll find some bad weather on the moors. I made sure to include the G10 as well.

It really was, good to finally have the sun out. Agreed, I can't find any faults in it for my uses. Hope that goes well for you. Is that with your Nallo? Rowan.

@@RowanWildCamps yeah will probably take nallo really enjoying it

​@@garynesbitt5078That is great to hear. Hope you have a good time.

Much needed.

Thank you, glad you liked it. Rowan.

Certainly is. Thank you for watching.

Good evening, It is the Rab Siltarp 2. Dimensions are 2.4m x 3m (8' x 10') and weighs 494g/17.4oz. 16 external guy points and 1 central lifter point. It was the worst conditions I have had that tarp in, I thought it performed really well. Thanks for watching. Rowan.

Thanks for watching.

I have a Nallo 2, used to have a Soulo BL. But this was for testing purposes, to allow me to see what this tent can do.

​@@RowanWildCampsAnd without following Nortents recommendations of double poling.

Thank you, glad you liked it. Rowan.

Yes it is. Wow, until you mentioned it I would never have noticed that. So, I just checked all poles that I currently have, and where this break happened is in a female to female section, but, with my Hilleberg and Alpkit poles, they are male to female at both ends on the pole. The thing I noticed is the section that broke here is the only female to female on the pole. The same section at the other end is male to female. Perhaps there is. Hope this helps. Rowan.

Sorry to hear that, I looked at that tent a few years ago, several aspects of it put me off. Hopefully it won't happen again for you, or find something more prefarable. Thanks for watching. Rowan

@@RowanWildCampsIt’s very fragile. I’m out in my Soulo BL right now.

@@dougieranger Ah, I see, plus the inner pitch first put me off. Very nice, how did that go? I was in my Nallo 2 last night.

@@RowanWildCamps Solid as always, definitely overkill for the conditions. Pitch as one is the way to go. 👍🏼

@@dougieranger Ah well, at least you know you are safe. I always felt safe in my Soulo BL. For sure, I tried a couple a few years ago for summer use, but still annoying to use.

Good afternoon, yes I do, from Devon. I went up to Scotland towards the last weeek or so of March. The snow is the best camps. Thank you. Rowan.

@RowanWildCamps do you preplan and hope or wait for snow and go when snow around? How often do you get up there? I'm still learning about snow lol 😆 and how to time getting to it 😅

@@TonyHobbs Unfortunately not very often, find it hard to fit trips away around life. Last time was 5 years. As for the snow, I always keep an eye for it, very likely to get some up there in winter. This time I was going for that week, so had no choice what the weather would do. But I am very happy I got a proper winter camp in.

@RowanWildCamps you got very lucky I've been twice with Chris Townsend this winter and first was a bit of snow but not much second none and mostly too windy for much. Do you take crampons snow shoes axe shovel etc

@@TonyHobbs Oh very nice, bet that must have been good fun. Shame to hear about the lack of snow however. On this occasion just ice axe and crampons (crampons weren't used). Only a few people I saw up there had this gear, saw no snow shoes, but saw skis. Several mad people in trainers and trackies. Yourself and Chris?

Thank you, I always do. Nortent have watched it as well, so with this and FellmanDaves video, they too will be learning. And we as consumers will now start geting a bigger picture of the products. Rowan.

Hence why I went out. For research, and a challenge for myself. Thanks for watching. Rowan.

Exactly. This is simply user error.

@@theclaverman I did actually watch to the end and surprise, surprise, the tent collapsed 🤷🏼‍♂️ I’ve had a scan down the TH-cam channel too and seemingly seems to fit in with the hillerberg standard following of trying their best to bash any tent that dare be put against them. Sad really, because as a community you’d think people would be more open to the idea of a reasonably priced very good quality tent. I mean the red label soulo really isn’t all that different in quality to the vern. The black label is evidently better but you’d expect that at 1k tent. To be fair over all I’d say although hillerberg are the pioneer of tent quality the name carries a bigger price tag than the manufacturing of these tents. Which is why it’s so refreshing to see the likes of Nortent bring in a high quality, decent tent at reasonable costs.

@@michaelwilcock9745 Hilleberg is designed in Sweden and manufactured in Estonia. Nortent is both designed and tested in Norway, but manufactured in China. Explains much of the 5k price difference…..

I'd trust Rowan's actual testing over a fair weather camper who issues sweeping statements like "The Soulo is in trouble" and "The best backpacking tent of 2024 is here" after taking it out of the plastic bag and pitching on his local cricket club's grounds any day of the week! WAY too many channels at the moment with people "Reviewing" the contents of a GoOutdoors warehouse with little actual experience and banging on about "Extreme Storms" and "Total whiteouts" when its clearly a bit of wind and a snow flurry. They'd last about 10 mins on The Ben in a proper white out and probably have zero navigation skills either.......and that's the serious issue here.....they are giving bad advice to a large audience of beginners who could potentially lap it all up as gospel and go out without the right skills and equipment and end up being another mountain rescue shout. Re: the bent pole - a lot of perfectly decent and initially straight poles can gain a curve over years of use and not cause any issues. One of my MSR Ventana DAC poles is definitely curved and its fine after 15 years use. The pole on Nortent's video definitely has a curve to it. Pitching wise, I'd say Rowan's pitching was pretty belt and braces - he used Delta ground anchors, maxxed all his guy lengths where he could and double pegged as much as possible. And, as is the norm, wind on mountains often gusts from all over the place anytime it likes. There's PLENTY of Hilleberg tent videos in wind worse than this with the camper in and out with the door flapping around or rolled up and the poles survived. Something else about the Vern 1 and 2 I think might be an issue - the design of the roof and the way the poles cross look like a massive snow trap - the poles leave nowhere for snow to slide off. True 4 season tents need to be able to cope with snow loading and sheading and this looks like it would hold snow to me. At over £500 i'd also be expecting YKK zips and DAC poles or equivalent. It looks the part but I'll be sticking with my Terra nova and MSR for while.

@@andym2584 Good reply that mate, I agree with large parts of it especially the saturated state of the youtube influencer lot. Yeah I have the MSR nx 2 and in my opinion ill be sticking with it for the forseeable.

@@andym2584 Some great points here Andy... best wishes Tom

​@andym2584 I'd agree with you. A cricket park pitcher has no idea. Or very little if says a pole with a bend in it is faulty its taking shape of tent . He's just defending a clearly sub par or barely par tent and how can the camper her orchestrate this that's just plain ridiculous even I can sniff out something fishy 😅

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